Inflectra is pleased to announce the release of SpiraTeam 5.3, the latest version of its award-winning application lifecycle management (ALM) suite. This new version includes the latest SpiraTest 5.3 for quality assurance and test management as well as the latest SpiraPlan 5.3 for agile software development.

GitLab, a software product used by 2/3 of all enterprises, has announced $20 million in series C funding led by GV at more than double the valuation of last year's B round. In addition, Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, has joined the GitLab board to support the company’s mission to develop a seamless, integrated product for modern software developers and become the application for software development in Kubernetes.

Zoho announced last week the launch of Zoho Sprints, its agile project management solution. Available immediately, Zoho Sprints encourages teams to work iteratively and incrementally, over short periods of time, to quickly release potentially shippable products. Zoho Sprints follows the scrum framework and combines backlogs, agile reports, collaboration tools, and customizable scrum boards, making it ideal for software developers and other teams that follow the agile methodology.

Inflectra is pleased to announce the release of Rapise 5.2, the latest version of its Rapise test automation platform. Rapise is the most comprehensive and powerful automated testing solution on the market. With its latest version, Rapise includes major enhancements to its scriptless test automation framework called RVL that simplifies the creation and maintenance of automated test. Rapise 5.2 allows you to do full data-driven testing with its scriptless RVL framework.

JFrog, has acquired CloudMunch, a universal DevOps Intelligence platform, to expand its product offerings for developers. This is the third strategic acquisition by JFrog in eight months, following Dimon, experts in CI/CD, and Conan, the fast-growing open source C/C++ package manager.

Cloud Foundry Foundation, home of the industry-standard platform for cloud applications, has announced Microsoft has joined as a Gold Member. With a leading public cloud platform Microsoft Azure, and deep enterprise experience, Microsoft will bring valuable skills and technology to the open source software community and the Foundation.

As part of its strategy to empower developers and continue to drive DevOps innovation in multi-cloud environments, BMC, a global leader in IT solutions for the digital enterprise, today introduced Control-M Workbench, a no-cost, self-service, standalone development environment. This new capability accelerates application delivery and improves application quality for organizations driving innovation to market in an ever-increasingly competitive digital business economy.

Amazon Web Service has announced that AWS Greengrass, software which allows customers to run AWS compute, messaging, data caching, and sync capabilities on connected devices, is now available to all customers. With AWS Greengrass, devices can run AWS Lambda functions to perform tasks locally, keep device data in sync, and communicate with other devices while leveraging the full processing, analytics, and storage power of the AWS Cloud.

Sparx Systems, developer of the award winning visual modeling and lifecycle development platform Enterprise Architect, has announced the release of its new Pro Cloud Server, WebEA and OSLC based RESTful API, which together enable Enterprise Architect repositories to be hosted in the Cloud or on a Corporate Intranet, providing instant optimized web based access from browsers, mobile devices, Enterprise Architect and other network based devices.